Hitron Coaxial (Coax) Cable Tester | Pocket-Size Push Button Operation for RF Signal Detection on Coaxial Cable | Coax Outlet Testing Tool | Single Pack

This little, inexpensive device works exactly as advertised. I have been able to troubleshoot my various cable connections in every room if my house. Only takes about 5 seconds and you're done. I would recommend this to all my friends.

Easy to use and gives reading in seconds. Helped me diagnose a cabling problem in my house I less than a minute.

It works well, LED is hard to see, especially in daylight or brightly lighted area. Battery compartment is a little tricky to operate and plastic tabs are " fragile"

I received a new, digital replacement cable box from my provider. When I attempted to install it, I continually received a "no signal" message. I thought that strange since this new box was replacing an older model on the same connection that had stopped working. Then, I wondered if something was wrong with the cable/wall box connection (perhaps the reason the older one stopped working).So, I wanted to test/verify that I was receiving a signal from the cable connected at the wall outlet. Hence, this useful and great (as demonstrated) little device. I used it 15 minutes after I received it and yes it did detect a signal traveling over the cable from the wall outlet. Therefore, not the cable and another defective set top box from my provider. Off to them to get another replacement of the first replacement. I should charge them milage.

It does what it says. The light is a little dim and it feels a little cheap, but I got this for a job and it's probably saved me a couple hours on that one job.It did what you would expect it to, and in a 3 story house on its 3rd generation of poorly ran coax, you can see why this may be really useful when suddenly half the house jacks don't work.Well, they didn't because the provider had two seperate lines running to the house for some reason (well actually I see their mistake but its a long irrelevant story), their only supposed to have one. They ran to two splitters and divided up the jacks. When time came to reassign the old line that wasn't supposed to be for them, they lost have their jacks, and this helped figure that out.But where it really saved time was with the far room. There was a 5 way splitter near it, but we only knew of the one connection. Basically the cables where all good, the splitter was good, but those cables with that splitter I guess was just enough for the signal to not be strong enough to reach, and this showed that. Green when I ran the cable straight, red if i put in the splitter, but each port on the splitter was green in the first (and last) test. Ended up just bypassing it because we suspected all the other lines on it where just cut lines anyway.Using a simple tester I saw the splitter and cables where good, if it wasn't for the signal tester I'm sure it would have taken me a while longer to realize what was going on.